Cortazar’s Cronopios y Famas was a terrific, odd read. Sadly, my sixth edition from New Directions has page 69 reprinted on page 71, and so I’m missing a page that begins one of the stories in the baffling third section.

If you don’t have this book, get it and read the second chapter. Immediately. “The Tiger Lodgers” is brilliant, and the final story in “Unusual Occupations” is flat-out genius.

This sounds like hyperbole.

Bedtime. Hyperbolic dreams await.

(I won’t get a day off to write part of my essay tomorrow after all. Maybe Thursday. Boo.)